1 FEBRUARY 1845, Page 9

The Dublin Evening Post announces the death of the Marquis

of Sligo, an account of which reached Dublin on Thursday afternoon. Lord Sligo was born in the year 1788; and married, in 1816, Lady Catherine de Burgh, eldest daughter of the thirteenth Earl of Clanricarde. His Lordship was of Liberal political principles; and under the Whigs filled the high office of Governor-General of Jamaica. He was Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Mayo, and Colonel of the South Mayo Militia. He was a British Peer, and sat in Parliament as Baron Monteagle. The noble Mar- quis has left a numerous family behind him; and is succeeded in his title and honours by George John Browne, Earl of Altamont, now Marquis of Sligo; born on 31st May 1820.